Winding mechanism.



S. C. BURLINGAME.

WINDING MECHANISM.

APPLICATION HLED APR. 10. 1918.

Patented Apr. 22,1919.

ENTOR 6? MRNEY UNITED sTAT s rA'rENT orriou.

srErnEN o. BURLINGAME, or STERLING, comvuorrcu'r.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that LSTEPHEN (1131m- LIN AME, a citizen of the UnitedStates, re-

siding at Sterling, in the county of Windham and State of Connecticut,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Winding Mechanism, ofwhich the following is a specification. 1

My invention relates to improved apparatus for use in connection withtextile machinery and has particular reference to an improved deviceupon which the finished article is wound and delivered to the user.

Heretofore it has been customary in the manufacture of textiles to windthe finished product in predetermined lengths upon a metal plate formingpart of the textile machine from which plate it is transferred to aWooden board, usually, or it may be pasteboard, upon which it isdelivered to the users. WVood and pasteboard at the present time aremore or less expensive, so that the old method of winding the cloth upona board or pasteboard has-reached the point where it adds quitematerially to the cost of production of the goods. With this in mind, Ihave devised an improved apparatus intended to replace that justoutlined above, which apparatus comprises, briefly, an improved plate tobe applied to textile machines and a wire frame to be used inconjunction therewith upon which the cloth or finished goods is wound.My improved apparatus facilitates removal of a bolt of goods from themachine and, at the same time, reduces the cost of manufacture in thatmy metal frame will be cheaper than the wooden board or pasteboardheretofore used, and in addition to that, if desired, the public couldbe educated to preserve the wire frames and they could be returned tothe manufacturer of the goods to be used over again.

In the accompanying drawing, I have not attempted to show the textilemachine in detail at all as this forms no part of the present invention.

Figure 1 shows 'in perspective my improved frame with the bolt of goodsshown in dotted lines wound thereon.

Fig. 2 shows my improved frame and the plate of the textile machine uponwhich it is mounted, both shown in elevation with a bolt of .goods woundthereon, the goods being shown in dotted lines the same as in Fig. 1.

Specification of Letters Patent.

WINDING MECHANISM.

Patented Apr. 22, 1919.

, Application filed April 10, 1918. Serial N 0. 227,630.

Fig. 3 shows in elevation my improved frame and supporting platetherefor removed from the machine; and

Fig. 4 shows in elevation the plate of Figs. 2 and 3 and a modified formof my wire frame.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, 1 designates a plate of metalor other suitable material mounted for rotation upon any suitableapparatus, being here shown diagrammatically, as the method of mountingthis plate upon the machine forms no part of the present invention. Thisplate is substantially rectangular in shape, and is formed with flangesdesignated 2 adapted to receive and hold in place a rectangular metalframe 3, this frame being slightly larger than the plate 1 on threesides, so that when in position upon the plate 1, the two sides and oneend will project beyond the corresponding sides and end of the plate 1,so that when the cloth, shown in dotted lines and which I will designate4, is wound about the frame 3, it will not engage the plate 1. I preferto have the frame 3 of such a size that in use it will be sprung overthe flanges 2 and be held thereby under tension. An orifice 5 isprovided in the plate 1 beyond the left-hand end of the frame 3, asindicated in Fig. 3, so that after the cloth is wound on the frame theframe and cloth may be removed bodily from the plate 1, as the operatormay merely insert one hand in the orifice 5, grasp the frame 3, and bygrasping the other end of the frame, may lift the bolt of goods,together with the frame, from the flanges 2 on the plate 1 and slide thebolt of goods and its frame off the plate 1, the finished article on itsframe being shown in Fig. 1. As I have mentioned above, the users of thegoods, that is to say, manufacturers, storekeepers and the like, couldbe educated to preserve the frame 3 and the same could be returned tothe textile manufacturer to be used over again, thereby effecting agreat saving over the wooden boards or pasteboard now used.

In the modification illustrated in Fig. 4, a plate 1 of metal or othersuitable material is shown similar to the plate 1 of the constructionjust described, this plate being provided with flanges 2 similar toflanges 2 of the preferred form of my invention, for the reception ofmetal frames 5 and 6, functioning as does the frame 3, already referredto. The operation of this form of grasped by the operator to enable himto, remove the bolt of goods WOUIlCl upon the frame 5 and 6 from theplate 1' in amanner which is clearly 0 vious;

I do not Wish to be hmitedi to the precise;

details of construction herein illustrated and described, as. variousdepartures might be made therefirom. Within the scope of: my in vention.

hat I claim, as new-and desire to secure y LettersPatent ofthe-UnitedStates is;=-.-Y

1. In Winding mechanism, the combinae tion 013 a irameofrresillentmaterial, and: a

support for the same overswhieh the, frame,

is stretched to be held thereon by the ten- Qn, n. the frame: 7

2. In winding*hiechanism, the combination, of. a frame of resilientmaterial, a support for the same over which the frame is stretehed to beheld thereon by the tension in the frame, the frame extending-beyond thesides 0t this .S upport so that together with the material thereon, itmay be removed from the support. 1

- .3. In. Winding mechanism, the, sl mbiriation oi: a. frame. oiresilient-mate iel, a sup.

port tor the. same and flanges 0n the side over which. ,hB,f11LII1Q=.S.Sl3

,tched t held hereon by the WIASiQ L the frame,

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